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  • Politicians and journalists

    Posted by: Luis V. Teodoro | Posted on: April 29, 2013 | Filed under: Luis V. Teodoro

    THIS YEAR marks the 20th year since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared May 3 World Press Freedom Day. May 3 continues to resonate with...

  • Revisiting Doña Paz

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Ethics, Journalism Review

    CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA News TV for reminding the public of the horrors of the sinking of the passenger ship MV Doña Paz, which was...

  • Correspondent mauled for alleged ‘bias’

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: March 1, 2013 | Filed under: Attacks and threats against the media, Press Freedom

    POLICE OFFICERS mauled a correspondent-photojournalist covering the supposed raid by disaster victims of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) office in Davao City last 27 February 2013....

  • Awards held to remember Chit Estella

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: January 15, 2013 | Filed under: Journalism awards

    JOURNALISTS INA Alleco Silverio from Bulatlat and Elizabeth Lolarga from the Philippine Daily Inquirer won the first Chit Estella Journalism Awards held last Dec. 7 at the...

  • The year that was in the news media

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: | Filed under: Ethics

    PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. Aquino III was exceptionally critical of the press in 2012, among his complaints being inaccuracy and its alleged focus on the bad news that he said...

  • On a learning curve in a world of change

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: January 10, 2013 | Filed under: Training

    IN A complex and fast-changing world, journalists cannot be dismissive of the continuing need to learn. They can no longer claim that they have seen and done everything. The...

  • Cruel month

    Posted by: Luis V. Teodoro | Posted on: September 3, 2012 | Filed under: Luis V. Teodoro

    April is the cruelest month. —TS Eliot SEPTEMBER’S THE first of those months of the year that end in "ber" (September, October, November, December)—its onset signaling, so local wags say,...

  • Jesse Robredo and Press Freedom Cities

    Posted by: MQdejesus | Posted on: August 22, 2012 | Filed under: Melinda Quintos de Jesus

    It is clear from the outpouring of messages on social and traditional media that the public has recognized Jesse Robredo’s gift to the Filipino people, their government and the...

  • On top of the weather

    Posted by: MQdejesus | Posted on: August 16, 2012 | Filed under: Melinda Quintos de Jesus

    Philippine broadcast media does its best during natural calamities. It may be because our fragile ecosystem gives them so much practice. Media workers do not get the work holiday that...

  • Reporting the Scarborough disputeContext, context, context

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: July 13, 2012 | Filed under: Ethics

    ON THE news front burner since April, the Panatag Shoal territorial dispute between the Philippines and China escalated on April 10 in a tense naval confrontation between the two...